Bloodbath in Muyuka as ghastly accident claims over 20 lives

The dreaded and blood thirsty Buea-Kumba highway has once more drained blood from users of the inter-urban road network, with one of the most fatal incidents recorded last weekend. The accident, between a nineteen-seater bus and a cargo truck which occurred in the wee hours of Saturday 19, August at Mile 29, Ekona, is said to have claimed some seventeen lives at the spot.

Eye witness account hold that, the heavily-loaded cargo truck from the nation’s industrial hub, Douala, collided with a nineteen-seater bus transporting members of the Buea-based “wana wa wonja” choir, from Muyuka to Buea.

As reports hold it, upon descending the sloppy Mile 29 hill, the cargo truck, cripplingly loaded with beverages and other consumer goods, experienced a brake malfunction which delivered the truck into the unwelcoming arms of the nineteen-seater bus whose members, this reporter gathered, were from a night vigil.

Even though it is yet unclear how many passengers boarded the bus, the corpses recovered from the accident scene were nineteen while the driver of the cargo equally lost his life bringing the death toll to twenty. The sole survivor of last weekend’s accident was the conductor, AKA “motor boy” of the cargo truck.

Even though he acquired severe bruises, by the time of this report, he was said to be receiving medical attention in a nearby health centre. Speaking at the scene, the Divisional Officer for Muyuka, Tambe Tabot, called on the all whose relatives travelled to Muyuka that morning and never returned to visit the Buea mortuary for identification and collection of corps.

Meantime, while elements of the national Gendarmerie were trying to scrap and assembly the body parts spread all over the scene, “smart” youths of Muyuka neighbourhood were busy scatting away with cartoon of the beverages and consumable goods. Not even the pool of blood at the since of the incident or those on the ground could deter them from turning the ugly scene into a profitable one.